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In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense o

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. – George Orwell

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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between ones real and ones declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. – George Orwell

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